The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 3

Soon after, the two elder couples went to their own courts, but the youngest pair stayed with the old king, and they were as happy as the happiest married couple you ever heard of in a story.

Who acts: two elder couples, youngest pair, couples, you · What happens: go, stay, be, marry, hear · To what, where: own courts, happiest married couple, story

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder couples, youngest pair, couples, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 went	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	1 Soon	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Soon	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 couples	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 couples	nummod
6	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 couples	amod
7	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 courts	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 courts	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 courts	amod
12	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stayed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 stayed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pair	det
16	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 pair	amod
17	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stayed	nsubj
18	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 king	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 king	amod
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stayed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 happy	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 happy	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 happy	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 happy	cop
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 happy	advmod
28	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stayed	parataxis
29	as	as	ADP	_	33 couple	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 couple	det
31	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 couple	amod
32	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 couple	amod
33	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 happy	obl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 heard	nsubj
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 heard	advmod
36	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 couple	acl:relcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	36 heard	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 story	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 story	det
40	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 heard	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the two elder couples		couples's own courts		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location
2	stay	past	the youngest pair				with the old king	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with king=Location
3	is	past	couples = couple				as the happiest married couple; happy property	tree rules
4	marry	participle						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	hear	past	you	the happiest married couple not said here	a story	ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer couple=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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